Voting for launchpad

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:38:52AM +1200, Jason Taylor wrote:
> Is there any plans for some kind of voting on launchpad specs/bugs ?
> 
> The voting wouldn't have to be binding any way but would give some
> indication of what general Ubuntu users would like to see implemented.
> 
> Then maybe for each release the top 10 most voted specs should be considered
> / with reasons given to community for not attempting
> 
> Or maybe it would just end up in a massive popularity contest.....

You've provided some explanation yourself for why this is not necessarily
straightforward.  Votes like this are easily swayed, so even if our goal
were to pursue the directions that most Launchpad users would like to see
(which isn't necessarily always true), the votes wouldn't necessarily
reflect that.

Furthermore, there are many other factors which require consideration when
planning new features, such as the amount of work required to implement
them, the requirements to test and stabilize them, the workload of the
development team, and the release schedule.

While I would be interested in seeing such statistics, and would incorporate
them into the decision process, I would want to avoid a situation where they
were used inappropriately to justify arguments.

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 - mdz